The Million Things That Never Happened
by Billy Bragg
Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

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  1. New Musical Express (NME)
    Oct 29, 2021
    60
    His music has always had as much empathy as it has had political fire, and it’s the former that dominates here. ... It makes for a record that can occasionally get exasperating in its lack of momentum. ... Yet it is also album that leaves plenty of room for nuanced, compassionate songwriting that never loses grip of its sense of empathy.

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  1. PaulEvans
    Oct 31, 2021
    9
    His strength has always been his ability to mesh the personal with the political, and this duality is once again in abundance here. In MidHis strength has always been his ability to mesh the personal with the political, and this duality is once again in abundance here. In Mid Century Modern, his expression of "self-righteous" political rage is juxtaposed with self-righteousness in a domestic squabble, culminating in the epiphany (while contemplating the "kids that pull the statues down" and how "they challenge me to see") of the distance between the "gap between the man I am and the man I want to be".… Full Review »
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